Berkeley: City of the Blind

An evening of storytelling about our city and some of the significant blind individuals and organizations for whom it has been home.

The Holman Society invites blind and sighted communities to come together for an evening of story telling and conversation about the blind history of our city, and the people, past and present, who inhabit Blind Berkeley, as well as their influence in the wider blind and sighted world.

Did you know that both of the major blind consumer organizations in the United States have their roots in Berkeley, California?

Did you know that Jacobus tenBroek, instruimental in the founding of those organizations, was a blind professor at UCB, and that his scholarship had a role in both the Civil Rights and Disability Rights movements of the '60s and '70s?